VINTAGE CUNARD RMS BERENGARIA STERLING SILVER SOUVENIR SPOON. May have been repaired or reinforced in back. Please see photos for details. Note lighting variations may alter colors of item in photos. SS Imperator was a German ocean liner. Built for the Hamburg America Line, launched in 1912. Imperator was the first of a trio. Of successively larger Hamburg American liners that included SS Vaterland. (later the United States Liner Leviathan) and SS Bismarck. (later the White Star Line Majestic) all of which were seized as war reparations. Imperator served for 14 months on HAPAG’s transatlantic route, until the outbreak of World War I. After which he remained in port in Hamburg. After the war, he was briefly commissioned into the United States Navy. As USS Imperator (ID-4080) and employed as a transport, returning American troops from Europe. Following his service with the U. And White Star Line. As part of war reparations. Due to the loss of the RMS Lusitania. Where he sailed as the flagship. RMS Berengaria for the last 20 years of his career. Miller wrote that despite her German heritage and the barely disguised Teutonic tone of her interiors, she was thought of in the 1920s and 30s as one of Britain’s finest liners.